| Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by its dramatic emphasis on Norse mythology, Norse paganism and the Viking Age. The genre of Viking metal began with the Swedish band Bathory, one of “the most important European extreme metal acts of the ’80s and ’90s.” Their first album Bathory was released in 1984 and is “regarded by many as the first black metal record.” The band’s fourth album Blood Fire Death arrived in 1988 and signaled a change of direction. Ed Rivadavia of Allmusic attributes it as “possibly the first true example” of Viking metal. The album notably featured the band leader Quorthon singing in a clean style “as opposed to his previously preeminent death croak.” It was followed in 1990 with the release of Hammerheart, a landmark album that “formally introduced” to the metal world the “archetypical Viking metal album.” By then the band had departed from “the Satanic mould” and was “squarely in Viking mythology.” | ||
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| Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey
by Viking Skull $13.98 | Born in Hell
by Viking Skull $11.98 | Metal Massacre, Vols. 8-9
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by Viking Skull | Draped in Treachery
by Necrophagia $13.99 | Man of Straw
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| Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
by Moonsorrow | Miklagard: the History of Vikings Part II
by Rebellion $37.99 | Viking Raids - The Best Of Unleashed
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Viking Metal
